Stabelhøje

Stabelhøje or Stabel Høje (English: The Stacked Mounds) are two Bronze Age Mounds 135 meters and 133 meters above sea level by the village Agri in Mols Bjerge (Hills of Mols) on the peninsula Djursland in Denmark at the entrance to The Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. The burial mounds date back to the early Bronze Ages 1800–1000 years B.C. These hills are some of the more known view points in Mols Bjerge National Park. Other view points in the area are Agri Baunehøj, Trehøje, Ellemandsbjerg and Jernhatten. In the early Bronze Ages tribal leaders and other important members of society where buried in mounds placed in coffins made from hollowed out oak tree trunks. According to archaeological findings the burial customs changed during the Bronze Ages from coffin burials in oak trunks to cremation in the late Danish Bronze Ages. Probably due to international influence caused by long-distance trade with commodities such as copper, tin and cattle. This change in burial customs is probably also the case at Stabelhøje, that most likely hold several generations of burials from different Bronze Age time periods. From the top of the mounds there is a view to Kalø Castle Ruin in Egens Bay – part of Aarhus Bay, and to the coast of Jutland, with Aarhus, Denmark's second largest town, in the distance. One can also see the hilly fields of southern Djursland, and the unfarmed hills of protecte

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